Across Latin America, supermarket chains partly or wholly owned by global corporate goliaths like Ahold, Wal-Mart and Carrefour have revolutionized food distribution in the short span of a decade and have now begun to transform food growing, too.

Ecologists toured Mexico City taco stands and sushi bars Wednesday to refuel an old school bus with waste cooking oil that will power the next leg of a green-awareness tour from California to Costa Rica.

A delegation of military family members whose sons died while fighting in the Iraq war will travel to Jordan from December 27, 2004 to January 4, 2005 to deliver $600,000 worth of humanitarian supplies for refugees from the U.S. attack on Falluja.

Fuel-cell vehicles may finally be moving from the laboratory to the showroom. Premium-priced cars running on hydrogen could arrive in dealerships in 2005, and researchers say advances in technology could speed the vehicles toward becoming cost-competitive.

“Soy – at this moment – is the most important driver for deforestation, directly and indirectly,” says environmental analyst Jan Maarten Dros. “Directly because the cerrado is being converted from natural vegetation into soy fields. But indirectly, because in this region a lot of cattle farms are being replaced by soy farmers buying or renting land from cattle farmers.”

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is announcing the release of additional materials relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The records being released are documents recently re-reviewed and processed by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Your cell phone may kill you but shouldn’t be alarmed. It will take some time for it to kill you and in the meantime you will be supporting the globalist agenda and ultimately help reduce overpopulation.

Army Reserve Specialist Aidan Delgado served in Iraq from April 2003 to April 2004 where he witnessed U.S. soldiers abuse and kill Iraqi detainees. Soon after his arrival in Iraq, he sought conscientious objector status and turned in his weapon. Only after serving his full tour of duty was Delgado finally granted conscientious objector status and honorably discharged.

Animal rights activist, Allison Lance Watson, was facing five months in prison for refusing to rat-out other activists. She was given probation and a $5,000. This is on top of the $75,000 debt for lawyer’s fees.

A pregnant Tennessee woman who enrolled in federally funded research in hopes of saving her soon-to-be-born son from getting AIDS died last year when doctors continued to give her an experimental drug regimen despite signs of liver failure, government memos say.

The research, presented at a medical meeting in October, created a stir because it was from the nation’s largest women’s health study and found that women on the pill had lower risks of heart disease and no increased risk of breast cancer. That was contrary to what many previous studies had found.

Several military aircraft from the Air Force and Marines were testing in China Lake airspace two weeks ago when some people reported unidentified flying objects but Navy authorities insist none of the testing occurred during the time of the UFO sightings.

We used to live within a worldview in which everything is interconnected and we knew we had responsibilities to act to ensure nature’s generosity and abundance would continue. But in the past century we’ve become blind to those interconnections and therefore have lost our sense of responsibility – and now it’s putting our future at risk.

The Federal coffer will be $47 million lighter this financial year after the Howard Government bowed to public pressure, granting GST concessions to retirement village residents receiving nursing and basic living care.

In a chilling act more reminiscent of the now defunct Soviet Union or the Nazi regime of Adolph Hitler, the United States Congress passed legislation yesterday that requires the States to surrender their regulatory rights over driver’s licenses and birth certificates to The Department of Homeland Security.

Ukrainian prosecutors Sunday reopened their investigation into allegations Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned after doctors treating the opposition leader confirmed he had been slipped the toxic chemical dioxin.

The United States is in danger of becoming a one-party nation. This may happen not by an old-fashioned coup d’etat in which the opposition party is purged but by a suicidal Democratic leadership that has purged itself.

A milestone for the retention of GMO-free agriculture was set by the German parliament on 26 November. The federal council’s veto of the bill was overruled by the majority vote of the red-green coalition.

American Congress shows its fascist tendencies by planning to withhold aid to countries that don’t exempt Americans from the International Criminal Court. Why should Americans be allowed to commit crimes agaist humanity?

In the year 2000, George Bush became President of the United States of Monsanto-land. Bush had been bought and paid for by Monsanto, and genetic engineering and biotechnology were about to become Bush’s number one agenda

The U.S. military lied to CNN in the course of executing psychological warfare operations, or PSYOPS, in advance of the recent attack on Fallujah. This incident raises serious questions about government disinformation and journalistic credibility.

Holding up signs calling US president George Bush a “war criminal” and “liar,” several thousand demonstrators marched on the parliament buildings in Canada’s capital Ottawa to protest against his visit, the US-led war in Iraq and a host of other issues.

When Jared Lewis, a former officer with the Modesto Police Department in California and currently an expert on gang activity, went to the Navajo Reservation a few years ago for research purposes he emerged stunned.

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